2024-08-23 08:59:08
To express that a person has accepted or occupied a position, is the appropriate construction accept a position/positionno accepted as.
However, phrases like the following can be found in some media: “Vincenzo Montella took over the Turkish national team in September 2023”, “Javier Milei arrives in Madrid on his first visit to Spain since takes office as president » or “Martin Llaryora and Myrian Prunotto took over as Governor and Vice-Governor of Córdoba”.
As explained in Pan-Hispanic dictionary of doubtsthe word accept it meansamong other things, ‘to assume or be in charge of something unrelated, especially a task or responsibility’. It’s over transitive verb in all its meanings, so it is taken without as between the verb and its complement: “Accepted the position as director”, “She accepted the position a few months ago.”
So, in the initial examples, the suggestion would be “Vincenzo Montella took over the Turkish national team in September 2023”, “Javier Milei arrives in Madrid for his first visit to Spain since he took office as president” and “Martín. Llaryora and Myrian Prunotto took positions as governor and vice-governor of Córdoba.”
It is recalled that the construction accepted as which is not always inappropriate, because the verb can be accompanied by a complement that the term requires as. For example, in the sentence “He accepted the organization of the company as president”, what is assumed is the organization of the company and as states that the subject did so in his capacity as president. It is also possible in other cases, such as when accept it means ‘to accept or recognize something’ and as tell how it is done: “He took it as if nothing had happened.”
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